The New York Times on the discovery of 20,000 negatives of old New York City Housing Authority photographs, documenting the before and after conditions of NYC urban renewal projects in the mid-Twentieth Century and the impact on the lives of those families who were relocated.
"Those women should be entertaining...and children should not be running around on sidewalks brimming with questionable activity, like men playing open-air pinochle."
You can search the La Guardia and Wagner Archives of the New York City Housing Authority Collection for period photographs, architectural renderings, and other documents pertinent to the Housing Authority's public housing initiatives.
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